Greece’s jobless rate eased to 16.6 percent in October from a downwardly revised 16.8 percent in the previous month, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday, according to Reuters.
Seasonally adjusted data showed the number of unemployed at 780,913 people, with those aged up to 24 still bearing the brunt of being out of work.
Among younger persons aged 15 to 24, the jobless rate dropped to 35.6 percent from 39.4 percent in the same month in 2018. Greece’s jobless rate, which hit a record high of 27.8 percent in September 2013, has been falling since but remains the highest in the euro zone.
Greece’s 2020 budget projects growth rising up to 2.8 percent this year from 2 percent in 2019, helping to bring the jobless rate down to 15.6 percent from 17.4 percent last year.
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